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Gene Cone was one of the best defensive outfielders this fall, and his bat wasn't a huge disappointment either. Caldwell may get the start in LF on opening day, but I could definitely see Cone getting some playing time - especially if Elliott's defense becomes an issue. Elliott's bat will keep him in the lineup, but he may end up being the DH.

We were an out or two shy of making The Big Show last season. Our defense was atrocious by our lofty standards. We need to improve on that, and moving the biggest weak link away from the infield may help in that regard. IMO we'll be fine with Monty and Wynkoop as our Fri and Sat starters: we need to solidify our BP and Closer roles but we got some very talented depth to work with. Coach Meyers will have his work cut out in determining roles. We'll need more than just one middle guy and one closer to go to all season long, like we had last season.

Hoping to see career years at the plate by Greiner, Pankake, Martin, and English with averages well north of .300. Excited about Schrock's 2nd season, and in seeing what all the new talent can do....

Pitching: Pitching should be fine. Monty and Wynkoop are very good and are tough to beat when they are on. The third starter will go to Wil Crowe and I like him being the Saturday starter to keep the rotation L-R-L. We will have plenty of midweek starters/relievers in Reagan, Parke, Vogel, Beal, and Seddon. I believe the closing role will go to Mincey. I think are pitching can be ELITE, if the freshmen deliver and are what they are suppose to be.

Defense: LF and SS are really the only positions of concern. LF is a battle between Pankake/Caldwell/Cone. I believe Caldwell wins the battle in LF, mainly because of his bat and Pankake will play 3B. I think SS is Mooney's position to lose, considering he was recruited as a SS specialist.

Pitching: Pitching should be fine. Monty and Wynkoop are very good and are tough to beat when they are on. The third starter will go to Wil Crowe and I like him being the Saturday starter to keep the rotation L-R-L. We will have plenty of midweek starters/relievers in Reagan, Parke, Vogel, Beal, and Seddon. I believe the closing role will go to Mincey. I think are pitching can be ELITE, if the freshmen deliver and are what they are suppose to be.

Defense: LF and SS are really the only positions of concern. LF is a battle between Pankake/Caldwell/Cone. I believe Caldwell wins the battle in LF, mainly because of his bat and Pankake will play 3B. I think SS is Mooney's position to lose, considering he was recruited as a SS specialist.

Our Offense will go as far as Pankake, Schrock, Griener, English, Caldwell and Martin take them.

Getting to Omaha is most certainly a realistic opportunity and when you get there you never know what can happen.

I agree on all points. I see us winning 40-44 games this year in the regular season. Even if we go 2-n-out in the SEC Tournament that is good enough for a Regional Host. If we luck up and win 1 in the SEC tournament with 42-43 wins (meaning a Reg Season + SEC tournament record of 43-15 at worse) then we could even slip in as a National Seed. Dreaming, because obviously the works got to be put in to do it, but this teams got talent. Some of it may be young, and some of them may be new to the entire process, but if they can put it together we should be really good.

*For reference we went 39-16 in the regular season this past year (39-18 in Reg Season + SEC tournament). We had that one rained out game against Vandy that was never made up obviously.